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Whither goest the patent troll?

The IPKat

The worst of these patent trolls pick up low-quality patents and take advantage of asymmetries in the economics of litigation to make quick cash. The root source of this situation, according to Lederer, is the patent prosecution process. Start with the sheer volume of patent applications. Focusing on the U.S.,

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Raising the Bar Has Not Reduced the Patent Acceptance Rate in Australia

LexBlog IP

Between 2009 and 2013, the rate at which applications subject to the former (i.e. Some people may have anticipated that, in raising the standard of inventive step and introducing stricter requirements for enablement and support of claims, the RtB reforms would result in fewer applications being accepted. of cases in 2013/14 to 5.1%

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It’s a Product Patent… It’s a Process Patent… It’s Product-by-Process Patent!

SpicyIP

But first, just to take a step back: What is a Product-by-Process Patent Claim? As a part of the patent bargain, an inventor must describe the invention and disclose the best method to perform it. Explaining the approach of Brazilian courts and patent office (BRPTO), Roberto Rodrigues Pinho et.

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PTAB Declares that Broad Institute, MIT, and Harvard Inventors Were First to Invent a CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing System to Alter Gene Expression in Eukaryotic Cells

LexBlog IP

On February 28, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“ PTAB ”) issued a decision on priority in an interference proceeding between the Broad Institute, Inc. Second, the PTAB was also not persuaded by CVC’s assertion that CVC inventors, Drs. ’” Id. citation omitted). ” Id. at 25 (citation omitted).

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Micro Entity Status: Qualifying to Reduce Patent Fees

LexBlog IP

Micro entity status is a newer status, introduced under the America Invents Act Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”) in 2011 as an effort to reduce the cost of patenting for small businesses and individual inventors. Reduce your patent fees. Patent prosecution can be a substantial investment to some.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

SpicyIP

In 2006 Kibow had applied for registration of its invention for a certain composition that augments kidney function and was granted patent protection. This patent protection was challenged by La Renon before the IPAB under section 64. Centaur Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd and Kibow Biotech Inc. Saregama India Limited v.

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Year in Review: One-Year Anniversary of President Biden’s Competition Executive Order

U.S. Department of Commerce

After considering public input on the 2019 Statement and possible revisions, the USPTO, NIST, and DOJ withdrew the 2019 Policy Statement and maintained the withdrawal of the 2013 statement.